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Stealing

By John Fulton

When the boys’ father came to pick them up at their mother’s and take them for the day, he was…

Play Money

By Judith Claire Mitchell

At eight I was rich and powerful, controlled railroads and electric companies. A banker, I embezzled rainbows of cash that…

The Extinction Museum: Exhibit # 914 (tank of anoxic water from Gulf of Mexico near the mouth of the Mississippi River)

By Tina May Hall

The bloom of your skin as the river thickens around us. Constellations of algae exhale. We eat the fish that…

Phantom Trails

By Christine Kandic Torres

When Tía Amelia died, we ordered KFC. “Kentucky Fried Cruelty,” she used to call it, before biting into the flesh…

On Sewing and the Anatomy of Lips

By Myna Chang

On Sewing and the Anatomy of Lips Cupid’s bow: The contour line of the upper vermilion. I am drawn tight,…

Cow Town Carnival

By Brett Biebel

Mom was pushing 80 past a semi on the wrong side of Madison, and it was one of them numbers…

Rat Girl

By Patricia Q. Bidar

She calls herself Rat Girl, but she looks like a little Swiss doll. Now in the Chapel, she is singing…

SINFUL TANGO

By Julián Esteban Torres López

Like a toddler lost in a laundry basket full of dirty towels, the Argentine music dances. Cuts through the candlelit…

Crafting From Beyond

By mandira pattnaik

Here’s something I want to confess: I’ve stopped trying. A curvier-beaked whale dies with a lump of plastic in its…

A Diptych at the Seaside

By Dipika Mukherjee

1. She collects seashells, three in a row. One domed, a Buddhist stupa; another hugs the ground, an earthworm after…

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